sado1

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[–] sado1@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I second this, I use it with a Dell docking station at work (90% sure it's the same model) and updates for firmware just work on Kubuntu.

[–] sado1@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

As much as I like the idea behind Pine64, make sure you understand what you're doing - their devices usually need some time before they're useful, they might underperform, etc.
On the other hand, they're usually priced well for what they offer, and I think the ARM model of new PineTab might look better than their usual new offerings. Make sure to find out, how polished it is before you buy.

[–] sado1@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the moderation staff's responsibility. Sorry for nitpicking, I understand in this case it's likely the same people.

I just get triggered when I hear that an open source software developer should have any responsibilities at all (maybe apart from some extreme examples), and I wouldn't like this idea to stick in anyone's head.

[–] sado1@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be a nice feature, if Phosh behaved a bit different in landscape mode; it wastes too much vertical space, especially using Firefox to browse the web is a disaster. Maybe the top and bottom panel should share screen space at the top instead (each half of the screen); or they should be on the sides instead...

[–] sado1@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From what I understand, the RISC-V ecosystem is not polished enough yet, so the state of PineTab-V roughly represents the state of the entire platform for desktop Linux.

[–] sado1@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

My personal workaround is a smartphone book case with a spot for the debit card.

[–] sado1@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I own OP6, on Ubuntu Touch it has an annoying bug with shutdown (see my other reply here).
On mobile Linux, though, it's quite close: camera is missing, GPS is a bit finicky about SIM card you use, I did not seriously test battery life yet. I plan to give it a proper try to daily drive it soon.

[–] sado1@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The entire idea of Ubuntu Touch device support, was to be based on Halium. It's a bit different than regular mobile Linux (outside of Droidian, of course), where mainline is a requirement.

[–] sado1@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It won't be much of help, but I have a few devices:

  • Xperia X which so far works well, except that it feels like the phone's internals are a bit too slow for today's standards, so even if I will use it for the time being, if I were yo,u I would pick something more powerful.
  • OnePlus 6 which would be very cool (especially that it's one of the best phones for regular 'mobile Linux' so far), if not for shutdown being bugged, which results in time getting reset on every boot. But it's fast enough, and I hope the bug will eventually get a fix.
  • last time I tried PPP was not good enough, but it's been ~2 months ago and support was quite fresh. Might need to check again.
[–] sado1@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Would be a good guess, but Gordon mentioned that in his latest try, he installed Arch-based EndeavourOS instead of Mint.

[–] sado1@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I looked through the posts.
Explanation of the issue: the userspace implementation of OpenGL for Xorg, called GLX,does not work, maybe it isn't loaded. From what I see, /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/libglx.so is no longer included in nvidia-utils package, the new name for it is probably libglxserver_nvidia.so

Did you have any lines with (EE) in Xorg.0.log?
Do you see if this log says, if libglxserver_nvidia.so was loaded correctly?
Wouldn't hurt to check, if nvidia kernel module is loaded: lsmod | grep nvidia
Maybe reinstallation of nvidia-utils package could help, although I am pretty sure this was done already when you removed and added nVidia driver again.

Feel free to PM me, whenever you give it another go, even if it's half a year from now :) I'll do my best to provide you some advice.
('nv' is an old driver for old nVidia cards, you shouldn't look in that direction, it's normal that it doesn't load, if nvidia driver does)

[–] sado1@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looks like they have valid reasons for doing this - also, remember: they still allow selfhosting. It's less about what they want to do, and more about 'people are shit, as usual, and this is why we can't have nice things'.

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